Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 124
"You are exhausting yourself, king's son," says she.
Who acts: You · What happens: exhaust, say · To what, where: yourself, Auburn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 exhausting | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 exhausting | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 exhausting | aux |
| 4 | exhausting | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 says | ccomp |
| 5 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 exhausting | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 exhausting | vocative |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 exhausting | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 exhausting | punct |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 says | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exhaust in a quote | present · progressive | You | yourself | king's son vocative | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Auburn | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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